Super interesting! I'm curious what the purpose is, though?

Edit to answer myself: Looks like this is more of an offshoot of the FreeHL projects by the same author, which rewrite GoldSrc game logic to QuakeC to get those games to run on open source engine stacks, where the utility is more obvious. I guess it was just fun to see how hard it'd be to get HL2 content running.

A bit similar to the OpenMW project working on Oblivion and Skyrim content loading on the side, though perhaps that's a more obvious future vector for that project.

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its_magic 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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jjordan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Someone did something interesting to them and shared it with the world. That you feel is a waste of time does not add to the conversation and more broadly acts as a chilling effect on others who might want to share their interests.

When it comes to something like this, mom's advice is golden: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything."

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its_magic 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's a waste of time made necessary ONLY because of copyright law. As I explained.

As is THIS ENTIRE COMMENT THREAD.

And 10,000x other comment threads exactly like it, with you fools arguing back and forth for 300 pages about the subject.

What a complete waste of time and energy. Thanks, copyright law.

	▲	sho_hn 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Nonsense. People reimplementing stuff to see if they can is unrelated to copyright. See the many implementations of vi.

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bottlepalm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm also wonder why, but who cares, it's cool and fun. If someone wants to spend their time doing it, great. It's a lot more valuable than the time you spent writing that disparaging comment.

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aeturnum 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tho I also disagree with you, I just want to point out the many HN guidelines[1] you are violating:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

I don't think downvoting your comment is super useful either but there are elements of how you are interacting that are not related to your argument that you could change to be less likely to be downvoted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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__alexs 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why not just install it from Steam?

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Der_Einzige 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Everything you said is 1000% true. The butt hurt from people downvoting and flagging you are crabs in a bucket and people who are ontologically wrong about everything. Unironically.

The rules here suck. Dang is a bad admin. YC is rotten to the core.

	▲	wholinator2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm curious, what value do you actually derive from the website? Why stay?